New York minute

Back from New York. You know what can be scary about the city? that it has many faces. Arrive in a grey afternoon in a uptown neighbourhood where everyone look fat and tired, everything looks dirty, how disheartening that can be? But go to Central Park in a Saturday morning like today where the air is fresh and the buds are coming out and look at all the happy, earger people walking on Fifth Avenue then you'll love it again. That city, big, ugly, dirty, or fabulous, monumental... all depends on how you'd perceive it.

I went to Jersey City for the interview Friday morning, and the city looked sorrowful. But then surprisingly, from the window of that office, the great Wall Street buildings, just a river away. You can actually jump to the river and swim to the other side :) The editor told me it takes 5 minutes by metro to Wall Street. I guess there is always a reason to be optimistic.